Steve McQueen was “The King of Cool” and shot to the top of Hollywood’s elite list, becoming one of America’s highest-paid actors by the 1970s. His untimely death at age 50 came as a shock to the world, and it’s possible that it was his career that put him into an early grave.
McQueen lived a fast-paced life
Growing up, McQueen was a rambunctious child. Whether he liked to get into trouble or not is unclear, but he certainly found himself getting into trouble often. He was put into a reform school and then enlisted in the Marines, where he was anything but an exemplary soldier. Eventually, in 1950, he was honorably discharged.
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